Social ecology

Social ecology is a concept that is used mainly within the social-ecological research.

Taking into account the critical theory, environmental engineering and science criticism and of feminism can be ( Becker and Jahn ) social and natural scientific knowledge guided by theory relate to each other. In this way, Social Ecology to be justified as the science of social relations to nature. It is a theoretically and methodologically very sophisticated attempt at a social-ecological research, which is primarily known in German-speaking and is also used in geography as an integration concept.

Context of origin

By transfer of ideas and concepts from the biological ecology in the social sphere, different research approaches have emerged, where it 's always about the interrelationships between people and their social, biological and physical environments. In the 1920s in the United States in the form of a spatial sociology a " social ecology " has been worked out that even today in the city and research in human ecology plays an important role. An interdisciplinary and problem-oriented social-ecological Research emerged - from a critique of the uncritical transfer of biological ideas on society and as an academic response to the ecological crisis was in the 1980s in Germany - initially outside the universities and across the academic subjects taught.